He’d been feeling so down, so defeated. Then, the notification. His diary, published! He practically choked on his celebratory laughter. It was finally out there!

He spun around in his chair, letting out a whoop of pure joy. It was all so wonderful! He started pacing, his hands in his pockets, a grin plastered across his face.

He had to tell someone, so he reached for his phone and started to type, then paused, deleted, and then started again. He eventually just called his best friend, practically yelling into the phone. The happiness was infectious.

Emotion: jubilant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.66 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion jubilant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 jubilant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the jubilant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the jubilant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.738
la0.707
!0.670
ecstatic0.547
excitedly0.539
Suppressed:
S-0.768
😞-0.485
ness-0.429
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351